On Mon, 14/4/14, Ed Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Pariah was an office along the lines of "if you hold this office for > long enough, you win, but everyone else is encouraged to ding you for > every little thing and push you toward getting removed for too many > penalties". (Using Yahoo! webmail, again, so I've had to try to correct the formatting by hand; I hope it looks OK.)
Pariah is my second-favourite out of the mechanics I've invented, after promises. It didn't work too well in practice, though, because people were scared to take it. (It also lead to an awesome yet unexpected scam, which I discovered some time after submitting the proposal; it didn't work in practice because I was too cautious about it being discovered in advance and thus didn't give a clear enough intent for it to work, which is something of a theme of my failed scams. Perhaps next time I have a scam-related intent, I'll just be really blatant about it and hope that nobody steps in to stop the scam.) -- ais523
